Hey there! Okay. Andrea and Hermione just wanted to have an innocent day of fun at the pool…but when they go down "the slide less traveled", if you will, they end up going backwards in time and teaming up with Edward, a boy who has a very strange fear of girls, to defeat a ghost that's terrorizing the town.

Please r&r!

"This is going to be so fun," Andrea Potter, Harry's long-lost sister, said, her bright pink flip-flops slapping against the pavement.

"I know," said Hermione. She was holding two towels (one for Andrea, and one for herself), while Andrea was swinging the pool bag in one arm. They were going swimming at the new waterpark that had just been built across town. There were two slides there: one, that everybody used, and another, that neither Andrea nor Hermione had ever seen anybody actually go down. They decided they were going to go down that one, just so they could be different.

"Do you want to swim in the water a bit before we go on the slide, or do you want to try it right away?" asked Andrea, taking the ponytail holders that held her high pigtails in and putting them on her wrists, one on either side.

"Umm…I don't know, I want to swim in the water a bit first," said Hermione, looking just a bit nervous at the gigantic slide. "You can go down it first and tell me how much you like it. Like a slide critic."

"Whatever you say," said Andrea, smiling. "I wanted to go first, anyway."

The two girls found two chairs, one for Hermione, one for Andrea. They set their towels and the pool bag down and went to the water. Hermione smiled and pinched her nose so that no water could get up it and jumped into the water with a big splash.

"How is it?" Andrea asked, taking her sunglasses off and making sure to put them in the pool bag so nobody could steal them.

"Great!" said Hermione. "Now, go in the slide and tell me about that, since I told you whether the water was cold or not."

She swam toward the place where the second slide let you off into the water and Andrea began to climb the stairs. She had this thing called "surfing", where she rode down the slide sitting up with her hands on the slide and her legs folded underneath her. She called it "surfing" because it reminded her of a move she'd seen a surfer do once.

"Please, can I go yet?" Andrea asked the lifeguard who was making sure everything was safe on top of the slide tower, jumping from foot to foot with impatience.

"Wait…" said the lifeguard. "Okay, now that girl's away from the rope" (she had been talking about a younger girl who had accidentally swam under the rope near the mouth of the slide, because nobody was going down the slide except Andrea and Hermione), "so you can go."

Andrea practically flew down the slide, she was going so fast. She did "surfing", and she didn't even hear when the lifeguard told her to lay down. She closed her eyes, which caused her to not see the little circle of light that had just opened in front of her. She went right into it…and suddenly felt a rush of howling wind around her.

She opened her eyes and looked around herself. There were flying squirrels and the sunlit day had turned into a windy, stormy one. She couldn't see anything except for purple light (and the flying squirrels, which would have been funny if Andrea hadn't been so confused about where she was).

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Hermione was waiting for Andrea by the mouth of the slide. When she didn't see her come out for longer than she knew the slide took, she searched for her on the whole slide. When she couldn't find her friend anywhere, she ran up the steps two at a time and asked the lifeguard, who clearly hadn't noticed what had happened to Andrea, if she could go. As soon as the lifeguard nodded, Hermione sat down on the slide and couldn't wait for it to go fast enough. Finally, though, she saw the swirling vortex of color that had just opened up in front of her.

"AUGH!" Hermione cried, as she felt a force pulling her into the portal—an irresistible force. Unlike her friend Andrea, who had been too surprised, she screamed as loud as she could as she was sucked in, because she knew what this was. She couldn't laugh at the flying squirrels, because she was too scared. What was going to happen to her? Then, though, she remembered Andrea.

"HERE I GO!" she cried, shutting her eyes. "I'M COMING, ANDREA!"